Yah! I would like to get that explained as well. And isn't there anyone thinking about the jobs that would get created if US signed the Kyoto treaty? New filters, new production methods, new energy scources are among the things I can come up with in a few seconds, that would need alot of R&D and hence create new jobs...
yup, but I - totally out of the blue - guess that most places where geeks works still uses IE (as in a much higher percentage than the same geek's homes), and that this 'fact' will skew the numbers towards IE
Slashdot's nerds, techies, etc. probably have a higher number for IE because many people - including me - use it at work. But anyways: what are the numbers for Slashdot.org?
You have propaply allready seen this, but anyway here goes (don't know if it works on Linux though - but cannot see why it shouldn't):
The following commands control the image cache, which if enabled and set correctly can help smooth FPS and may also boost performance:
image_useCache [0,1] - If set to 1, uses background loading to cache image information. This may not necessarily improve framerate performance, but it does assist in smoothing out frame rates and reducing loading pauses. Note that the image_cacheMinK (see below) size must be raised from its default otherwise the game will crash when using this setting. Once this setting is enabled, the actual cache value is set in the image_cacheMegs setting below.
image_cacheMegs [Megabytes] - Determines the maximum amount of system memory to allocate to temporary loading of full-sized precompressed images if the cache is enabled by setting image_useCache to 1. Note that since this caching only applies to precompressed images, using the Ultra Quality setting will render this setting useless, since at Ultra quality no texture compression is used. Since a cache is only a temporary holding area, and not the place where the entire game is meant to reside, do not raise this value to something extremely high as that will simply reduce the available memory for the rest of Doom 3. Try a value of 128MB for those with 512MB of system RAM, and if you have more than 1GB of RAM, you can try a higher value like 196MB or 256MB for example. Do not set this to half your system RAM or some other monstrous amount.
image_cacheMinK [KiloBytes] - This setting determines the minimum size in KB for precompressed image files to be loaded into the cache. To make sure most image files can be loaded, and to also prevent a system crash when enabling caching, select a value like 3072 to start with. Raising this setting may improve caching, but it may also hinder caching if most textures are below the size you specify, so don't just raise this value for the hell of it.
I remember one day in high school me an some friends were talking about life on Mars, and one of them - a muslim - quoted from the Quran, and said that the book specifically stated that the only place life excisted in the universe was on Earth.... Was he wrong?
The funny thing was that he first said:
"There's only life on Mars! The Quran says that it is so - There's only life on Mars!"
And so we all got a good laugh:)
But who controls the computer then? - who programmed it and who's doing the updates and patching?
Today some psyko could ad some biohazardeous stuff to the groundwater with great ease - nobody has done that yet - likewise I don't think psykos will create vira etc. in the future.
Also, when these chips become available to you and me, I think safety precautions will be huge - Maybe you can't use the chip without hooking up to some central computer who follows your experiments and tests for biohazards...
As allways in these OLED dicussions the question is:
How long before the display starts to degrade?
In other words: Have they solved the problem with OLEDs that they start degrading after a record holding short time?
When/. brings a story about that, ThEn OLEDs gets really really interesting (as opposed to now: they are 'just' really interesting;)
"In the past, people have been puzzled by the significant variations in sea levels in different parts of the world," says Jerry Mitrovica, a professor of geophysics at the University of Toronto and lead author of the study. "Like throwing water in a bathtub, many scientists assumed that if polar ice melting were contributing to sea level rise, it would present itself evenly and uniformly across the Earth's oceans."
But that assumption, he says, is simply wrong. Mitrovica uses Greenland as an example. It was assumed that if the ice caps on Greenland were melting, all coastal locations would flood evenly. "In fact," Mitrovica says, "if the entire Greenland ice cap melted, then places relatively close by, like Britain and Newfoundland, would actually see sea levels fall. The reason is fairly simple: despite its small size, the Greenland ice sheet exerts a strong gravitational pull on the seas. As the polar sheet melts, it will exert less pull, resulting in lower - not higher - sea levels around Greenland. Of course, sea levels will rise on average, and as the meltwater moves away from Greenland it will create problems for countries in the Southern Hemisphere. In the same way, melting from the Antarctic will raise sea levels in the Northern Hemisphere, but not in places like Australia."
"Re-applying a 19th century idea, Dr. Mitrovica and his colleagues showed that each ice sheet has a distinct 'sea level fingerprint.' In general sea levels rise in the opposite hemisphere to the melting ice due to the reduction in the gravitational pull of the ice mass.
"The very idea that sea levels should rise uniformly if the ice sheets are melting is wrong. It's dramatically non-uniform," he says. "If the Greenland ice sheet melted tomorrow there'd be flooding in the southern hemisphere but a sea-level fall in Scotland and Newfoundland.""
The Ice on Greenland will also add to the sea-level
But scientists have also measured that the gravitational drag from the huge volume of ice on land, "pulls" the water farther up the shore, and thus, when the ice melts and add's to the sea-level, the gravitational drag lessens and then the sea-level also sinks
This could happen to me...
I have a royalty card at a large SuperMarket-chain and alcohol is what I buy 90% of the time I'm there. Other normal groceries are to expensive there, so I buy them elsewhere. I buy large amounts of alcohol there because I'm managing the Bar in a private Club with 20 members or so, and 4-5 times a year we throw a BiG party:)
If they look at my shopping records they would get a completely wrong picture of me... I also lent out my card to friends who don't have a card, if they want to buy something at "member-price"...
I guess the same thing would happen with RFID, unless supermarkets start sharing their records. I'm not 'against' RFID-tags, as long as the store's don't sell my private shopping records to other companies without my explicit permission.
I think it will be like this:
If we find present life on Mars extra care will be taken to sterilize everything on a manned mission. But if we realize that we can't sterilize everything 100%, that wont stop us from going to Mars.
If we don't find present life before a manned Mission, it doesn't mean there aren't any, so extra care will still be taken - maybe just as much as in the first case.
But with *sigh!* more than 20 years before a manned mission will take place I'm sure that science will find a way to sterilize everything - perhabs with some "magic" nanocoating sprayed on everything before you exit a habitat:)
btw: as far as I'm informed the warmest temperature on Mars is'nt 100 deegrees (20C)but rather 70, and the coldest around -270 (-170C)...
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Yah! I would like to get that explained as well. And isn't there anyone thinking about the jobs that would get created if US signed the Kyoto treaty? New filters, new production methods, new energy scources are among the things I can come up with in a few seconds, that would need alot of R&D and hence create new jobs...
This should be maked into a movie! It's really really scary!!! Read it!
yup, but I - totally out of the blue - guess that most places where geeks works still uses IE (as in a much higher percentage than the same geek's homes), and that this 'fact' will skew the numbers towards IE
Slashdot's nerds, techies, etc. probably have a higher number for IE because many people - including me - use it at work. But anyways: what are the numbers for Slashdot.org?
Oups! forgot to say that it is in the 'DoomConfig.cfg'-file you should make the changes - sorry :)
You have propaply allready seen this, but anyway here goes (don't know if it works on Linux though - but cannot see why it shouldn't):
The following commands control the image cache, which if enabled and set correctly can help smooth FPS and may also boost performance:
image_useCache [0,1] - If set to 1, uses background loading to cache image information. This may not necessarily improve framerate performance, but it does assist in smoothing out frame rates and reducing loading pauses. Note that the image_cacheMinK (see below) size must be raised from its default otherwise the game will crash when using this setting. Once this setting is enabled, the actual cache value is set in the image_cacheMegs setting below.
image_cacheMegs [Megabytes] - Determines the maximum amount of system memory to allocate to temporary loading of full-sized precompressed images if the cache is enabled by setting image_useCache to 1. Note that since this caching only applies to precompressed images, using the Ultra Quality setting will render this setting useless, since at Ultra quality no texture compression is used. Since a cache is only a temporary holding area, and not the place where the entire game is meant to reside, do not raise this value to something extremely high as that will simply reduce the available memory for the rest of Doom 3. Try a value of 128MB for those with 512MB of system RAM, and if you have more than 1GB of RAM, you can try a higher value like 196MB or 256MB for example. Do not set this to half your system RAM or some other monstrous amount.
image_cacheMinK [KiloBytes] - This setting determines the minimum size in KB for precompressed image files to be loaded into the cache. To make sure most image files can be loaded, and to also prevent a system crash when enabling caching, select a value like 3072 to start with. Raising this setting may improve caching, but it may also hinder caching if most textures are below the size you specify, so don't just raise this value for the hell of it.
got this from here
and if you have some extra space on your hard-drive go look here
I remember one day in high school me an some friends were talking about life on Mars, and one of them - a muslim - quoted from the Quran, and said that the book specifically stated that the only place life excisted in the universe was on Earth.... Was he wrong?
:)
The funny thing was that he first said:
"There's only life on Mars! The Quran says that it is so - There's only life on Mars!"
And so we all got a good laugh
(I'm an atheist.)
But who controls the computer then? - who programmed it and who's doing the updates and patching?
Today some psyko could ad some biohazardeous stuff to the groundwater with great ease - nobody has done that yet - likewise I don't think psykos will create vira etc. in the future.
Also, when these chips become available to you and me, I think safety precautions will be huge - Maybe you can't use the chip without hooking up to some central computer who follows your experiments and tests for biohazards...
As allways in these OLED dicussions the question is: /. brings a story about that, ThEn OLEDs gets really really interesting (as opposed to now: they are 'just' really interesting;)
How long before the display starts to degrade?
In other words: Have they solved the problem with OLEDs that they start degrading after a record holding short time?
When
Look at this.
or simply read the qoute below:
"In the past, people have been puzzled by the significant variations in sea levels in different parts of the world," says Jerry Mitrovica, a professor of geophysics at the University of Toronto and lead author of the study. "Like throwing water in a bathtub, many scientists assumed that if polar ice melting were contributing to sea level rise, it would present itself evenly and uniformly across the Earth's oceans."
But that assumption, he says, is simply wrong. Mitrovica uses Greenland as an example. It was assumed that if the ice caps on Greenland were melting, all coastal locations would flood evenly. "In fact," Mitrovica says, "if the entire Greenland ice cap melted, then places relatively close by, like Britain and Newfoundland, would actually see sea levels fall. The reason is fairly simple: despite its small size, the Greenland ice sheet exerts a strong gravitational pull on the seas. As the polar sheet melts, it will exert less pull, resulting in lower - not higher - sea levels around Greenland. Of course, sea levels will rise on average, and as the meltwater moves away from Greenland it will create problems for countries in the Southern Hemisphere. In the same way, melting from the Antarctic will raise sea levels in the Northern Hemisphere, but not in places like Australia."
or this. Quote:
"Re-applying a 19th century idea, Dr. Mitrovica and his colleagues showed that each ice sheet has a distinct 'sea level fingerprint.' In general sea levels rise in the opposite hemisphere to the melting ice due to the reduction in the gravitational pull of the ice mass.
"The very idea that sea levels should rise uniformly if the ice sheets are melting is wrong. It's dramatically non-uniform," he says. "If the Greenland ice sheet melted tomorrow there'd be flooding in the southern hemisphere but a sea-level fall in Scotland and Newfoundland.""
The Ice on Greenland will also add to the sea-level
But scientists have also measured that the gravitational drag from the huge volume of ice on land, "pulls" the water farther up the shore, and thus, when the ice melts and add's to the sea-level, the gravitational drag lessens and then the sea-level also sinks
what it all adds up to I don't know...
When the gaming industry begins to make (and release them in proper time) their games for linux I'll be using linux only, and drop my dual-boot...
That's the biggest (probably only) reason for me and a lot of people I know, to why we arent using linux only...
This could happen to me... :)
;)
I have a royalty card at a large SuperMarket-chain and alcohol is what I buy 90% of the time I'm there. Other normal groceries are to expensive there, so I buy them elsewhere. I buy large amounts of alcohol there because I'm managing the Bar in a private Club with 20 members or so, and 4-5 times a year we throw a BiG party
If they look at my shopping records they would get a completely wrong picture of me... I also lent out my card to friends who don't have a card, if they want to buy something at "member-price"...
I guess the same thing would happen with RFID, unless supermarkets start sharing their records.
I'm not 'against' RFID-tags, as long as the store's don't sell my private shopping records to other companies without my explicit permission.
I for one welcome our new RFID overlords
every time I think of a future Ringworld-movie I start wondering how they will shoot those wampire battles....
I think it will be like this:
:)
If we find present life on Mars extra care will be taken to sterilize everything on a manned mission. But if we realize that we can't sterilize everything 100%, that wont stop us from going to Mars.
If we don't find present life before a manned Mission, it doesn't mean there aren't any, so extra care will still be taken - maybe just as much as in the first case.
But with *sigh!* more than 20 years before a manned mission will take place I'm sure that science will find a way to sterilize everything - perhabs with some "magic" nanocoating sprayed on everything before you exit a habitat
btw: as far as I'm informed the warmest temperature on Mars is'nt 100 deegrees (20C)but rather 70, and the coldest around -270 (-170C)...